Kitchen flooring-tiles, karndean, amtico or wood?

tpt

as in going around odd shapes? - there are two types commonly used. the first is a matting which you cant cut, the second is a loose wire which can run easily around shapes. loose wire is the more popular because of that.
Most come in a kit with everything you need to fix it down.
You dont need to cover every square inch (for instance behind the pedastal etc)

The insulation boards ensure the heat goes up, not down and are most needed on concrete floors.

hotcookie101

tpt wrote: »

as in going around odd shapes? - there are two types commonly used. the first is a matting which you cant cut, the second is a loose wire which can run easily around shapes. loose wire is the more popular because of that.
Most come in a kit with everything you need to fix it down.
You dont need to cover every square inch (for instance behind the pedastal etc)

The insulation boards ensure the heat goes up, not down and are most needed on concrete floors.

Sorry-I actually meant about fitting the flooring with the big freezer etc in the room-as it will be a sod (if not impossible) to remove it completely from the kitchen/diner

It was an add on to a previous post, but it did seem that I was asking about the underfloor heating-its good to know about that though-I think if we were going to do that, would only have it done in the kitchen bit with concrete underneath. I thought the vinyl/karndead/amtico would be inherently warmer than tiles-it feels that way on the samples compared to feeling tiles, so I thought it might be more insulated than tiles iykwim?

ali-t

I have karndean ontop of concrete floors and it is not cold. I am pretty sure you cannot use underfloor heating with it as it would warp or melt.

cddc

Tiles with underfloor heating would undoubtably be the best solution but the most expensive to fit, and as tpt says the most expensive to run. I would take his advice if going down this route and and fit an insulation board first.

Also you do not need to run the heating full time in the house, most sytems have timers and thermostats and if, say, you want your floor heated to a certain temperature at certain times, the thermostat will work out what time it has to turn the system on to achieve this.
This will minimise running costs, and at least with tiles you dont have to worry about flooding.

devildog

You can have under floor heating with Karndean and Amtico. I think the only installation difference is the glue they used to stick them down.